Man's Influence Quotes

Man is complex—he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man